A lesson in things not to say on national television

After state attorney Willie Meggs announced there would be no charges filed against Jameis Winston, Winston’s attorney Tim Jansen held a press conference where he took questions about what his client schedule was, how he felt about not being charged and all of those things reporters want to know about in the aftermath of an announcement like this.

And then came the very worst kind of question:

“If anything from the victim’s family, did they have affiliation whatsoever with the University of Alabama?”

It’s possible this one didn’t come out right and the reporter didn’t mean to actually imply that an Alabama fan had made this whole thing up to get their team into the championship game or anything like that. We hope so anyways.

After state attorney Willie Meggs announced there would be no charges filed against Jameis Winston, Winston’s attorney Tim Jansen held (…)

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